Blueprints contains demos, alternate versions, and songs left on the Heartbreak City cutting room floor. 

From Apex Manor's Ross Flournoy:

Two of the tracks on this EP—“Morning Light” and “Actual Size”—are demos of songs that made it onto Heartbreak City. The “Morning Light” on the record is really sparse; the demo has acoustic and electric guitars, harmonies, and synths. I originally wrote “Actual Size” as a really uptempo, almost Queens of the Stone Age-meets-Can kinda thing. Then when we got in the studio, producer Rob had an idea to slow it way down. I like both approaches.

“The Long Goodbye (Alt. Version)” is just a stripped-down, acoustic version of the album track. I like this version too for its tenderness (yes, I used that word). The stars of this are the sick players who joined me: Dan Iead on pedal steel and Scott Claassen on piano (both from The Broken West), and Mindy Jones (Moby) on vocals.

The skeleton key—or keys, if you will—to what Heartbreak City might have been are the songs “Chosen One” and “True Love Runs Away.” I’d originally envisioned Heartbreak City as sort of a dark, nocturnal LA record: more synth-y, midtempo, moody. These songs give a sense of what that record would’ve sounded like.